June 2005
Monthly Archive
Only Human
Posted by David Boulton on Jun 25 2005 | Tagged as: Blogroll, Republished
In the summer of 1991, at the Sea of Faith conference in Leicester, two intellectual bruisers debated religion and humanism. One was Nicolas Walter: anarchist, peace activist and passionate rationalist. The other was Don Cupitt: elegant, Cambridge, deanish and donnish. Their debate was not the familiar one which had raged for a century, between humanism and Christianity. What was at issue was not humanism but the kind of humanism which might speak to the condition of a postmodern world at the scruff-end of two Christian millennia.
Quakers and the Environment: Three Options
Posted by Os Cresson on Jun 18 2005 | Tagged as: Blogroll
Quakers live in and are part of the environment. Since the early days they followed the conventional practice of separating their faith from the world around them. Later, with the growth of the environmental movement, a second option emerged, that of spiritualizing nature. Then, with the development of nontheism among Friends, naturalizing religion became an [...]
Prospects of Quaker Nontheism
Posted by Os Cresson on Jun 10 2005 | Tagged as: Blogroll
INTRODUCTION
This is a look at the prospects for growth of Quaker nontheism. This is one paper in a series of three. The other two describe the history and current condition of nontheists in the Religious Society of Friends.
What follows below are brief comments about the many tasks before Quaker nontheists as they settle into their [...]
Roots of Quaker Nontheism
Posted by Os Cresson on Jun 10 2005 | Tagged as: Blogroll
June 16, 2005
INTRODUCTION
This is a look at the roots of Quaker nontheism today. Most of the Quakers mentioned here were not nontheists but they stood up in ways that led to the nontheism of Friends today, or that led to characteristics of today’s Religious Society of Friends that nontheists find helpful. Some of [...]